This reminds me that during Covid, blowing bubbles for my kids in the garden and watching them float over the fence next door, I was effectively launching little bioweapon grenades at them.

The public are fed up with experts getting things wrong. So we’ve invented a machine that will get things wrong more quickly”

A big part of the problem is that Artificial Intelligence isn’t a technology, it’s a buzz word. It’s practically useless. The continued use of it is a sign of the lack of seriousness in the industry. It’s like the automotive industry saying that they make brmm-brmms.

A Speculation Machine is the ultimate technology for the economic period we’ve all been living through. A technology that’s always about to become intelligent, for an industry that’s always about to make profit. When reality catches up it’s going to be horrendous.

Voice interface will never properly work because it’s Main Character tech which is unusable in real world social and professional contexts. Text-based chat might persist, but any benefit of that interface is offset by the obvious fact you’re dealing with an unreliable middle man who makes up info.

Horves

“I am happy to correct the record”

Specifically, I think McCartney should release another sexy Christmas song. It’s what we all need.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1o...

And See My Baby Jive is basically I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. Maybe because they’re not inherently Christmas songs, you have to work harder to protect the magic.

I think the holy dyad of Wizzard and Slade are so powerfully Christmassy you have to wait till it at least the winter solstice before putting them on.

When you get in there it’s just someone watching the Grand Prix on a portable TV

He looks like a young Lee Anderson

Better Advent Calendars

New immigration policy: every deported refugee is allowed to take one [1] item from the British Museum back with them.